The bones of newborn babies, who a woman claims were buried in a Walkinstown garden by a paedophile ring, have not been found.

Gardai have been excavating the area for three weeks since the woman claimed her two newborn babies were killed and buried there years ago.

Gardai have confirmed that bones were found – but they weren’t human, reports the Irish Mirror.

Gardai and a dig team at the scene in South Dublin (Image: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin)

Detectives discovered what turned out to be dog remains during the painstaking search at the rear of a house in Walkinstown, South Dublin.

Officers, backed up by a forensic archaeologist, spent three weeks on a finger-tip search and used state-of-the art ground penetrating radar.

The dig was sparked by claims from woman in her 50s a paedophile ring got her pregnant twice when she was a child and then suffocated her new borns.

A source told the Mirror: “Very serious allegations had been made and gardai had to carry out this dig in a search for evidence to substantiate or back up this woman’s claims. While officers did find bones, the experts to hand were able to determine that they were not those of a human infant. They were dog bones.”

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It’s believed a forensic anthropologist specialising in human fossils was able to determine the remains were not those of infant children. Although no evidence of dead babies have been found, the case is not yet closed.

The source added: “A lot of the people who were interviewed before, including the woman making the claims, will have to spoken to again by specially-trained gardai.

“This a very delicate case. There are mental health issues involved. The woman gave officers a harrowing story and it had to be fully investigated.

“But detectives won’t look at this as a case of anyone wasting Garda time.

“Obviously they didn’t take her claims lightly or they would not have carried out the dig.”